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When Your Subconscious is Smarter Than You

I thought this was interesting, and it happens pretty frequently. I’ll be writing a story and a word comes into my mind, and after I write it down I realize I’m not even sure what that words means. The weird part is that 95% of the time I use the word correctly even though I could not tell you the definition of it. I’ll give you an example. I typed out this sentence, “A timeless tradition in the annals of mankind.” Only after typing it did I realize I wasn’t sure what the word “annals” meant, so I looked it up. It basically means a record of events, so I used the word right even though my conscious mind didn’t really know what it meant. If you would have asked me an hour ago, before I typed that sentence, what the word “annals” meant, I couldn’t have told you. I’m guessing this happens to other people? Maybe? Or maybe my subconscious is just smarter than me XD

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3 thoughts on “When Your Subconscious is Smarter Than You”

This happens to me too! I think it’s because we read a lot or we’ve heard it used before and so we feel comfortable using it in a similar context (but that’s just what I think, haha). It’s so interesting how our mind/subconscious works, though!

Glad to know I’m not the only one! I took a psychobiology class and I remember our teacher went over an experiment where they showed certain pictures to blind people. Obviously they can’t see, but they guessed right a higher percentage of the time than luck, and it was statistically significant. So there was some part of the brain, or a neural channel, working in ways they weren’t even aware of. Crazy how the brain works sometimes 🙂